Photo by Brandee Noelee Photography
The definitive paper on the safety and outcomes for breech birth at home and in birth centers, with helpful suggestions for midwives.
Cornelia Enning
Learn how to work with breeches in water with this conference audio class.
Lora Denton—loradentonphotography.com
Often a deviated uterus will lead to an automatic cesarean. Jessica Gray writes about how this difference in her physiology led to her happy breech births.
Jan Tritten, Midwifery Today’s mother and editor, often posts questions of interest for discussion by midwives on Facebook. We decided to share the thoughts on these topics in our magazine each quarter (sans emojis). Some of it may be controversial, but we hope that these conversations will inspire even further discussion and learning on the subjects we cover.
Esther Edith—estheredith.com
My homebirth didn’t go quite as planned…
Spinning Babies Breech Birth Quick Guide
Gail Tully
This 20-page guide describes both normal and stuck breeches and discusses what to do for birth in the all-fours position. Please note, only the most common issues of rotation and descent—or lack of rotation and descent—are described.
Normalizing The Breech Delivery DVD
By Midwives Valerie El Halta and Rahima Baldwin Dancy, CPM
Produced by Amanda A. Smith, MFA
This video makes it clear that a breech delivery should not be undertaken by an inexperienced practitioner. However, it reflects the midwives’ experience and conviction that everyone who attends pregnant women should have basic knowledge of the breech delivery.
Lynsey Stone—dfwbirthphotographer.com
Learn some tricks on how to flip a breech baby from Mexican midwife Naolí Vinaver.
Emily Robinson—emilyrobinsonphotoblog.com
Student midwife Karin Peacock has witnessed the normalcy of breech birth, so she asked the obvious question: Why aren’t more breech babies born at home? Read more…. Why Aren’t More Breech Babies Born at Home?
An educational article that not only covers the signs of obstructed breech birth, but also teaches the skills that best deal with resolving the situation.
[We are] concerned with the need for midwives to reclaim breech, twin and VBAC births. It is important that midwives gain the skills, experience and knowledge necessary to safely assist these births. Most doctors have lost knowledge of vaginal breech birth by allowing their few skills to get rusty … Read more…. Thoughts about Breech Birth
Babies, whatever their position, are guided by the internal structures, bones, muscles and ligaments of the mother’s pelvis, along with the movements both mother and baby make, working as a dyad from life in the womb to life in the outside world. These positions (ROA or OP) are unusual, not abnormal for birth and all are possible, though not necessarily optimal.
